Academics

In 2021, I graduated high school with an Advanced Regents Diploma, Distinction in Math and Science from All City Leadership Secondary School in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I then graduated from Reed College in sunny Portland, Oregon, with a B.A in Math with a concentration in Statistics (May 2025)


Shortly after being accepted into the SEO Scholars program(Fall 2017), I was selected to receive an educational stipend, out of 500+ other scholars in my cohort, which enabled me to learn the basics of web design through a paid summer coding boot camp.


My mother and I never had a working computer at home, so not only was this my first introduction to the world of computer science, but it also spurred within me an immediate interest in technology. For the first time in my life, I truly felt that the websites, programs, and systems I would continue to use every day since, could one day be created by me, for people like me. I continued my early education in CS and coding, by joining CodeNation(previously known as ScriptEd) at the start of high school. I loved learning how to code for the entirely new type of challenge it presented—it was tricky, frustrating, and at times, seemingly unattainable. Yet, I always returned to the screen. The joy of overcoming an obstacle, but most importantly, the pleasure of growing to face more challenging ones, is what drives me to seek rigor in whatever I do.


After graduating, I spent two years studying Computer Science at Reed College, taking Algorithms & Data Structures and Computer Systems, in addition to Reed's introductory CS and math courses(CS 1, CS 2, and Discrete Structures). I then transitioned to Mathematics, with a focus in Statistics, because my academic and research interests primarily lie in formulizing otherwise human, behavioral, and seemingly unpredictable processes using statistical methods.


Simply though, math excites me. It's a discipline that uniquely contains all the types of challenges I yearn for and more. It's puzzly and fulfilling in a way that makes me smile, and want to share this world with those who may lack the institutional resources to access this joy otherwise(see Community). I have taken courses in Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, Data Science, Mathematical Statistics, Probability Theory, Causal Inference, Real Anylsis, and Statistical Learning.


I conducted my senior thesis under the advising of Leonard Wainstein, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Reed College. My thesis proposes a formal causal framework for understanding undergraduate admissions using tools from causal inference, natural language processing, and cluster analysis. We use me- diation analysis, directed acyclic graphs, and the potential outcomes framework to model our variables of interests, also employing Latent Profile Analysis, Latent Clus- ter Analysis, and Structural Topic Modeling to estimate variables we are interested in studying but cannot inherently observe in data. This research proposes two methods for measuring students’ character attributes within the context of college applications and for identifying latent groups based on those attributes that, in turn, reflect the broader character of institutions. Our framework offers a foundation for colleges, students, and support networks to make more informed decisions about which inter- ventions are most likely to drive change in key college outcomes, such as enrollment or admission. You can read more here, and preview the accompanying presentation here.


I also co-developed a companion shiny app to my thesis, which uses only students reviews on the colleges they attend to calculate a prospective student's "fit" with that college. You can access the app here. Here are two more recent projects I have completed: a study of post-undergrad outcomes by traditional measures of academic success, which I lead in a group(Fall 2023), and a paper on multicollinearity from a probability standpoint(Fall 2023).


At Reed, I expanded my understanding of the world humans and technology occupy, by taking classes that have challenged me to investigate the intersections between tech, politics, art, and language. Most notably, I have been involved with Reed College's comparative politics department since Fall 2022, both as a student and teaching assistant, primarily focused on how emerging technologies could influence poltical movements and systems in Latin America.


I have also been writing poetry since the 2nd grade, and have done so consistently since my sophomore year of high school, under the invaluable mentorship of Michael Homolka Frank Queris, and Joan Kane. Here is one of my latest poems. Besides writing poetry, I love playing squash, running, skating, cooking, watching movies, and playing chess during my free time.


Updated: 03/16/26